Ever notice how all my memories center around sugary treats?

I was in the Fresh Market yesterday and glanced over and saw they had red cream soda so I bought a few bottles. You can’t really find red cream sodas around these parts. When I was a kid my mom would make us ice cream sodas using Barq’s Red Cream Soda, which they don’t sell here, over vanilla ice cream about once a month as a treat for not shoving each other down a storm drain or setting each other on fire. Yes, we got rewarded for not killing or maiming each other with ice cream in lieu of any allowance. Also, there were no sprinkles on these ice cream sodas because WE WERE POOR.

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The soda pop that trips my memory circuits is Squirt. It was always available at the little hole in the wall grill – only about five booths and a counter with round seat stools, and the individual juke box pods in each booth and several on the counter. The cook always wore his wife beater, a white garrison style cap, a stained white apron and khakis, and there was always a waitress squeezed in there too.

Red Cream Sodas are double damn good. Smart move with the guard. I grew up with ‘em as well. I loves me the Fresh Market, problem is, the closest one around here is about a 3 or 4 hour round trip, but I’ve been known to do it on occasion. I’m hooked on carbonated lemonade. Anyway, if you ain’t had a good ice cream soda, you ain’t lived. Fact.

Fresh Market is da bomb. Red cream soda fucking rocks. Oh, did you know the Fresh Market now makes sandwiches? Made with their rotisserie meats. I am about 15 minutes from a Fresh Market. Jealous yet? Ha!

Definitely jealous…I insist on a trip to the Fresh Market when I am up visiting my parents, just to remind myself that not all grocery stores are overly-brightly-lit hellholes filled with rude people and questionable brands. As much as I hated living in the city, the lack of decent grocery options is a real drawback of rural life.

Then again, I’d probably blow my whole paycheck (and entire caloric budget) on their fancy cupcakes and cheeses if I had one near me.

No. Big Red has more of a bubble gum flavor, whereas red cream soda has a creamy ever so slightly cherry flavor- but not strong cherry. Yes, I am a cream soda connoisseur, also known as a cream soda scientist.

So…….does red cream soda make a decent mixer or are you drinking it straight? FYI when I was 16 a buddy of mine figured out how to get into his parents’ liquor cabinet. Later that night when we ran out of orange juice and were so hammered that we learned, the hard way of course, that drinking and driving might kill you but vodka and root beer will make you wish you were dead!

Well…if some hussies would just keep a dime between their knees, we wouldn’t have so many siblings with different last names coming through the school system, now would we. Dimes between their knees and drinking red cream soda…everybody would be so much happier.

Probably… Faygo makes a few
Cream soda flavors. And we’re not real generous with our Faygo! We don’t really even share with other Yankee states… I’ve heard you can sometimes find it at dollar stores in the south.

Ever had a Rock & Rye? Tastes like slow gin with coke, minus the drunk. I think it’s a cream soda, too.

Since no one bothered to answer your question: Squirt is grapefruit flavored… For me, stomach cramps in a can, but delicious!